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Why We Need the Teacher Incentive Fund Video

Why We Need the Teacher Incentive Fund

Robin Chait explains what the Teacher Incentive Fund is, how it improves education, and why it is likely to help student achievement in high-needs schools.

Robin Chait

Getting the Facts Straight on the Teacher Incentive Fund Report
Students raise their hands to answer a question in a sixth grade class at a school on Chicago's South Side. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Getting the Facts Straight on the Teacher Incentive Fund

Robin Chait and Raegen Miller debunk myths about the Teacher Incentive Fund, which supports performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems in high-needs schools.

Robin Chait, Raegen Miller

Teacher Incentive Fund Addresses Three Key Issues Article
Greg Ahrnsbrak is a physical education teacher at a school in northeast Denver that is part of the Professional Compensation System that links teacher pay with the school district’s mission and goals. (AP/David Zalubowski)

Teacher Incentive Fund Addresses Three Key Issues

Robin Chait and Raegen Miller explain why proposed additional funding for the Teacher Incentive Fund can improve teacher quality and student achievement in high-poverty schools.

Robin Chait, Raegen Miller

Paying Teachers for Results Report
Mary Kimbel looks for a fellow student to help with a problem posed by her third grade English teacher. <br /> (AP/Jack Dempsey)

Paying Teachers for Results

Report from Robin Chait and Raegen Miller examines research that will inform the design of pay-for-performance programs for high-poverty schools.

Robin Chait, Raegen Miller

Ensuring Effective Teachers for All Students Report
Teacher Angela Lively plays word bingo with her class. Lively keeps a box of shoes so poor children can get a new pair when their old shoes won't fit. When she sends assignments home, she includes packets of crayons, glue sticks and scissors to make sure students have supplies to finish projects. (AP/Michael Conroy)

Ensuring Effective Teachers for All Students

Report from Robin Chait outlines six state strategies for attracting and retaining effective teachers in high-poverty and high-minority schools.

Robin Chait

Five Ways to Innovate in Education Article
President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have called for using $5 billion in stimulus funding to reward states that are instituting bold, promising education reforms. (AP/File)

Five Ways to Innovate in Education

Melissa Lazarín and Robin Chait detail five innovative initiatives that states and school districts can implement with recovery funds.

Melissa Lazarín, Robin Chait

From Qualifications to Results Report
Federal law should stop focusing on "quality," as measured by front-end qualifications, and start focusing on "effectiveness," as measured by whether teachers actually help students learn. Federal policy can stimulate an effectiveness approach. (iStockphoto)

From Qualifications to Results

Robin Chait makes the case for a focus on teacher effectiveness, not qualifications, and how federal policy can make it happen.

Robin Chait

Shooting Yourself in the Foot Article
New teachers, like these picking up literature during an orientation for teachers entering the New York City public school system, are often the first to be laid off. (AP/Tina Fineberg)

Shooting Yourself in the Foot

Mid-year teacher layoffs undermine teacher quality, but Robin Chait and Raegen Miller outline ways to mitigate its worst effects.

Robin Chait, Raegen Miller

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